bing.com
529 Plan: What It Is, How It Works, Pros and Conshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a898036ac45417da0fc6ab3329e8338&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.investopedia.com%2Fterms%2F1%2F529plan.asp&c=2534419687960956470&mkt=en-usJulia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Anthony Battle is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional. He earned the Chartered ...Jul 26, 2026 9:11 AM
scalattice.com
Show HN: I built a hypervisor and client for inference on consumer computehttps://scalattice.com/blog/openai-sdk-scalattice/I'm the founder of Scalattice, this is my second company, third total product. I'm a 2x founder building some challenging software, some easy software, and some curiosity based tools that I've just always wanted to be a part of!So here is Scalattice.Scalattice is an OpenAI-compatible inference API. You keep the OpenAI SDK, swap base_url + API key, and call open models (Qwen3, Llama 3.3 70B, Gemma 3, DeepSeek R1, etc.). Inference is performed by a provider node on our distributed network of consumer hosted inference machines, we run an open source agent (https://github.com/scalattice/scalattice-agent) which works in Rust to run the inference and get the provider paid.In short, anyone can become a provider, offer up their machine with our Windows/Linux Rust agent, and earn some extra cash, or start a farm of machines to make big bucks.I decided to build some innovative behavioural traits to the API for higher performance/security: 1. output vetting - Scalattice Cloud vets the response agJul 26, 2026 5:43 AM
cygnus.run
Show HN: Cygnus – A fast, lightweight self-hostable serverless runtime and PaaShttps://cygnus.runI built Cygnus because of a long standing frustration with the compromises needed to be made when choosing a deployment option for web applications.The ecosystem is fragmented into a few distinct camps, each sacrificing user experience or runtime compatibility to balance isolation, startup latency, and their own profit margins.Docker: Heavier and slower because it has to supervise more than web apps. Paying overhead you don't need. MicroVM's: Good isolation, but huge maintenance surface area and substantial overhead. Great for untrusted code, overkill for your own apps. Workerd: Tries to dance around hardware isolation by enforcing an in-process V8 isolate model. Neutered runtime to prevent arbitrary syscall execution. Personally I still find the tradeoff worthwhile for their edge footprint, but I still find myself complaining about it from time to time. Vercel/Managed serverless: Delivers a great developer experience, uses microVM's which is good for compatibility but has a business mJul 25, 2026 12:20 PM
news.google.com
Today in History: July 25, first ‘test tube baby’ born in Englandhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMingFBVV95cUxOUUNpTkJWTUN3a0d2dU9lUFBlMlRLNENJbXRqOEwtQVBhd0NlbWh1UlpvdWF4U3VuZV9BeVd0RG9IejRvOURWQlJVVkdjMjhFX25WRmctaFZYU1R2bTJ5a2ZfZUVZWDZDUVBpc0lqbUV0MHNFVkVHX0N5bkZ4SzJiS2gtbG85bDVERjcwc2hGRnVNUlItM3JKeThZOEUxdw?oc=5Today in History: July 25, first ‘test tube baby’ born in England Hartford CourantJul 25, 2026 7:00 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Multi dimensional sort (beyond Hilbert curve)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042861My point is about structuring and indexing an arbitrary dataset, for preprocessing before eg segmentation/clustering, neighbor querys...In 1D, sorting is trivial because scalar values have a total, unambiguous order. In 2D and higher dimensions, there is no single way to order points, and points can't all be compared >=/=_k v if u_k >= v_k (comparing along the k-th coordinate axis only).In 1D, a sorted array satisfies x[i+1] >= x[i]. Extending this naturally to a multi-indexed d-dimensional array x[i, j, k, ...], we can define a dataset as "cartesian sorted" if:- x[i+1, j, k, ...] >=_1 x[i, j, k, ...] - x[i, j+1, k, ...] >=_2 x[i, j, k, ...] - ...and so on.In other words, the array of multi indexes is sorted along every row, column, and slice under its corresponding coordinate projection.What makes this definition interesting is that their exist a very simple algorithm to perform Nd sort in the "cartesian" sense. Just iterate: 1. Perform 1D sorts along every row (apply the permutation Jul 24, 2026 11:27 PM

spacenews.com
LatConnect 60 Unveils Proprietary AI Capabilities Following Growing Indo-Pacific Defence Interest in SWIRSAThttps://spacenews.com/latconnect-60-unveils-proprietary-ai-capabilities-following-growing-indo-pacific-defence-interest-in-swirsat/PERTH, Australia – 24 July 2026 – LatConnect 60 (“LC60”), an Australian satellite Earth observation and AI company, today unveiled a proprietary intelligence-fusion capability that leverages the latest advancements in […] The post LatConnect 60 Unveils Proprietary AI Capabilities Following Growing Indo-Pacific Defence Interest in SWIRSAT appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 24, 2026 2:59 PM

science.nasa.gov
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4954–4960: Celebrating Our Rover Engineers Past and Presenthttps://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4954-4960-celebrating-our-rover-engineers-past-and-present/Written by Lucy Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, July 27, 2026 As an APXS uplink lead and strategic planner, I have the privilege of working with the rover engineers most days that I am on operations. The APXS instrument measures the chemistry of rocks, unconsolidated materials and […]Jul 24, 2026 1:22 AM
github.com
Show HN: Chrome Plugin to Scan HN Page Quickly. (Categorize with Local Model)https://github.com/prabhic/hn-quick-scanRecently I started spending more time reading HN posts, and engaging. Wanted to scan HN pages faster ,that rosonates to me.For me it is easy to grasp if they are in the order of software stack (Hardware, System, Infrastructure, apps, and so on ).Built this chrome plugin that uses Gemini model, to classify. It works but, classification still not great. It is built using claude code cli.on my Mac book pro, Gemini nano model loading takes around 11 seconds, and classification it self takes around 5 seconds. (if sub classification enabled it adds 6 more seconds approx). Model loaded in background thread. And unloads, if not used after 30 seconds. I would say still not pretty usable, without optimized classification time, but it works, to experiment with.Jul 23, 2026 3:20 PM

nasa.gov
NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Closes Out Space Station Missionhttps://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/nasa-astronaut-chris-williams-closes-out-space-station-mission/After eight months aboard the International Space Station for his first mission, NASA astronaut Chris Williams is preparing to return to Earth. During his assignment, Williams contributed to research for new cancer treatments, advanced the production of materials to improve computers and electronics, ventured into the vacuum of space to complete two spacewalks, and much […]Jul 23, 2026 2:00 PM
github.com
Show HN: Rendi, an agent harness on Trigger.dev without spinning up a VMhttps://github.com/mcheemaa/rendiHi all,Rendi is a full agent harness that runs background jobs, schedules, a real browser, and email without you needing to spin up a virtual machine. I built it for the ClickHouse and Trigger.dev hackathon but honestly super excited on how it came out.If you look at my github I have been working on deploying agents for a decent time now but mainly by spinning up VMs on Hetzner or AWS. The one thing I still wasn't able to crack was how to make these agents per tenant yourself without buying a huge bare metal machine to create micro VMs or use third party VM providers, but I think with Trigger.dev and this work on Rendi I can easily provision these agents per tenant without having to deal with all things VMs and also cost is so low.I also spent a lot of time on the UI and the component library. I literally came up with a brand for my project before starting it up hehe. I have also been thinking a lot more towards accessible UIs specially since it makes an agents life a lot easier when bJul 23, 2026 1:44 PM
github.com
Show HN: Mwe-MCP – self-hosted memory for AI agents that knows who may know whathttps://github.com/Fr4nZ82/mwe-mcpHi HN, for about a year now I've been experimenting with AI agents and building my own home ecosystem; from the start I set out with the idea of an agent that behaves like a member of the family, not as a personal agent, and this made me clash very early first with OpenClaw's builtin memory, then I tested dozens of memory plugins without ever finding one that fit my purpose, so like any good builder I made my own. First on OpenClaw, as a plugin, then the idea matured and since the beginning of this year the memory plugin has evolved into an agent agnostic MCP server. It has been running my household since spring, 4 people and 3 agents on the same memory.The core idea that sets this project apart is the addition of inline ACLs on the prose of the wiki pages; the inspiration came to me, in all honesty, when social media was full of the redacted documents from the Epstein files; the wikis are written like that, every paragraph, every item of a list, every sensitive piece of data has its oJul 23, 2026 12:38 PM

spacenews.com
Airbus space business takes advantage of growing demand for satellite systemshttps://spacenews.com/airbus-space-business-takes-advantage-of-growing-demand-for-satellite-systems/Airbus executives say the turnaround in the company’s space business came just in time to tap growing demand, particularly from Europe, for space capabilities as it pursues a joint venture. The post Airbus space business takes advantage of growing demand for satellite systems appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 23, 2026 11:55 AM
nkorai.github.io
Show HN: An open source schema definition for datasheetshttps://nkorai.github.io/datasheet-schema/Not the first person to do this but all the other examples I've seen are either dead or miss the point. Why: I was designing a Eurorack compatible instrument and I did not want to brush up on now 10 years old college electrical engineering knowledge and I just want Claude to make me a PCB board. I realized that all of the sources for electrical component information are PDFs and not very nicely machine readable. That led me to ask why not and one of the gaps I see is a lack of an agreed upon easy to use schema for both extraction and consumption of datasheet information.So I've been building datasheet-schema. It's an open JSON Schema for the electrical specs in a component datasheet. One of the core idea's is that a number by itself is useless. "VOUT = 3.3V" tells you nothing until know it was measured at 1mA load, 25C, 4.3V in. So every value in the schema carries its test conditions and a pointer back to the page it came from. That last part matters to me because if a model extracts Jul 22, 2026 6:12 PM

nasa.gov
NASA Joins Genesis Mission to Accelerate AI-Driven Discoveryhttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-joins-genesis-mission-to-accelerate-ai-driven-discovery/NASA is supporting the Genesis Mission, a national effort to drive the use of artificial intelligence in tackling complex scientific and engineering challenges to advance a new era of discovery. President Donald J. Trump issued the Executive Order “Launching the Genesis Mission” on Nov. 24, 2025, creating a national mission to leverage artificial intelligence to […]Jul 22, 2026 2:04 PM
bing.com
House Republicans pass hard-right defense bill, handing wins to Trumphttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8993b51fff4639ae65ee8925eeebd6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fhouse-republicans-pass-hard-right-defense-bill-handing-wins-to-trump%2Far-AA28u8PL&c=4682095845211627164&mkt=en-usThe GOP-led bill authorizes over $1 trillion for the military and would codify President Donald Trump's rebranding of the Pentagon as the Department of War.Jul 22, 2026 1:54 PM

latimes.com
Hot Dog on a Stick comeback roadmap: New owner, rapid expansion and lobster—on a stickhttps://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-07-22/hot-dog-on-sticks-comeback-plan-aggressive-expansion-with-new-menu-that-includes-lobster-on-stickHot Dog on a Stick, which started in Santa Monica in 1946, has been acquired by a new owner with ambitious plans.Jul 22, 2026 10:00 AM

science.nasa.gov
NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarcticahttps://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/nisars-l-band-radar-reveals-hummingbird-in-antarctica/Description Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band radar was used to produce an image of Nunatak Zaterjavshijsja — a mountaintop in East Antarctica — poking out amid a stream of ice flowing northeast to the ocean. The obstruction causes stresses in the ice, heavily fracturing the surrounding surfaces with […]Jul 22, 2026 12:33 AM
bigfootsbc.ca
Show HN: An interactive game of British Columbiahttps://bigfootsbc.ca/I recently drove through the beautiful lands of British Columbia. I've called this place home for a better part of 20 years, and I realized that I know very little outside the little bubble that I live in.So I created this interactive map/game where you play as the Sasquatch, roaming the land and discovering hidden gems, towns, and other wildlife. You can read up on the town's story, view pictures to get a sense of what they look like, and stuff like that.I wanted to put this out there for those who are curious about our lovely province and enjoy roaming around.I am a software developer, but this app is vibe-coded. I do believe that this kind of usage of AI is fantastic--to better understand the world around us through immersive simulation.Let me know what you guys think!Jul 21, 2026 11:00 PM

spacenews.com
Zenno Astronautics to relocate to the United Stateshttps://spacenews.com/zenno-astronautics-to-relocate-to-the-united-states/SAN FRANCISCO – Zenno Astronautics, a New Zealand startup focused on applying superconducting magnets for spacecraft attitude control and acceleration, plans to redomicile to the United States. “It is obvious […] The post Zenno Astronautics to relocate to the United States appeared first on SpaceNews.Jul 21, 2026 10:11 PM
machinations.tpk.gg
Show HN: Machinations – a multiplayer strategy game where LLM is the game masterhttps://machinations.tpk.gg/I started by thinking about the game mechanics I actually wanted to see. I come from a long background in diceless tabletop RPGs, and what I loved about them was the GM improvising, making rulings on the spot. When LLMs came along, I saw a chance to build a mechanic that worked like that.But LLMs on their own are bad at it. They regress toward the mean and they try too hard to please the player. Nobody ever really fails. So I built a system (I won't name it, I'm not here to self-promote) around a 3d10 bell curve of outcomes. The dice decide how well an attempt goes, across a whole spread of grades from disastrous to legendary, and the LLM has to narrate whatever the dice say. That forces it to produce results the player won't like, which is where the drama comes from.With that in hand, I could resolve any conflict narratively. Two characters chasing the same goal, one trying to kill or rob the other, whatever. The roll leans the story in one direction or the other. Then I realized I neJul 21, 2026 9:26 PM